ContinuityOps: ERP Process‑Level Fault Tolerance & Fallback
9/10
Demand Score
Operational disruptions halt order‑to‑cash and manufacturing, triggering revenue loss and SLA penalties; teams need business‑aware safeguards, not just alerts.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-20k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Operational Disruptions
Competitor Landscape
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Control‑M
- SAP Solution Manager
- Celonis
- ServiceNow Flow Designer
Must-Have Features for MVP
Real‑time event ingestion from ERP logs, queues, and EDI
Anomaly detection with seasonality baselines per process
Runbook orchestrator with human‑in‑the‑loop approvals
SafeSwitch throttling/deferral policies by priority
Fallback microservices for critical operations with offline capture
Reconciliation engine with three‑way checks and exception handling
Business Continuity Simulator for tabletop and chaos drills
Comms to Slack/Teams/SMS and executive dashboards
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Authoritative source of truth for process state
- Preventing duplicate transactions during fallback
- Vendor constraints on automated retries/compensation
- Change control for runbooks in regulated environments
- Cross‑functional ownership of continuity policies
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- 50%+ reduction in P1 operational incidents
- Maintained OTIF and cycle times during partial outages
- No financial posting discrepancies after reconciliation
- Mean time to recovery improved by 30–60%
- Continuity drills executed quarterly with passing scores
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.